A lot of that is just swallowing the liberalist narrative. none of the party leaders just sit in parliament for debates, they are only there if they have to be. it's a complete waste of time, and this parliament in particular, 2tk and the speaker have made PMQs an embarrassment.

They made his Farage's family vulnerable, and then denied it. Every right to be angry (and some).

Not sure what you mean by allowing democracy in his own party. Obviously nobody is going to challenge Farage for leadership. And they have to mitigate for the very real risk of people obtaining a vote just to sabotage the party.

I have very little hope of reform being able to achieve anything if there was a fair GE, and they won power. Just look at all of the stakeholders that would be working against them. All of them. quangos, councils, mayors, civil service, Lords, legacy media, judiciary, supreme court, lawfare, the EU, unions, nhs, doctors, the city, BoE. US if it's democrats again. It would be carnage.

But we can't go on as we are now, so something has to break it up.

I've got a friend who describes himself as a failed politician. (He succesfully lets a handful of properties he owns so he's basically very succesful but his interest has always been politics).

He's been in all parties, inclucing Reform, and currently wasting his time in Restore. He said that in Reform good candidates very rarely get picked to stand. It all has to go through Farage who picks degenerates. Restore the same - I believe the utterly chanceless Restore was just created to weaken Reform. He finally twigged that degenerates are picked on purpose.

That's quite a change of mind for someone who's a gullible non player character who normally can't see something in front of his nose.

Infamously labour have 400+ MPs, and had to crow bar in someone who wasn't even a MP to be their leader.

Obviously I have no idea what your friend's experience is, but selecting a candidate isn't just choosing for Reform, but choosing people who will be able to stand up to the scrutiny only Reform candidates receive, without snapping. Lowe himself was a prime example, highly competent, qualified, but consistently overstepped the mark and used language that could be weaponised. It's what a lot of Reform supporters don't understand, to get into power requires pragmatism. They need to appeal to the people who are sceptical. They need some hard liners in the party but also moderates. Not in policy as that should be consistent, but in conduct and communication.

The foreigners own UK Plc. Those in the City of London who sold UK assets to foreign sovereign wealth funds eg GIC and Temasek of Singapore. Now, the Chinese have bought some of our old and established private schools, then mothball them after a few years of ownership, to deprive our youngsters.

The Labour Party has just re-nationalised British Steel - the Chinese owner deliberately ran it down. Then tried to damage the furnaces by not having the necessary and prerequisite maintenance and supply of key materials to keep the furnaces going.

The proceeds from the privatisation of our assets and oil and gas from the North Sea have been spent on the NHS and providing welfare and housing benefits. Little have been spent on long term investment eg engineering, tech, ev motor, aviation and energy sector, etc, to improve the country's GDP, to negate PSBR or bring down the National Debt.

The godsend proceeds from the North Sea have been wasted.

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This sort of thing can't be encouraged, imagine if it caught on and was repeated up and down the country and parli filled up with cartoon characters , clowns and  jokers gaslighting the country.

Mr Farage will relinquish his position at Reform for far less than £5m. Thus when a £5m bloke came calling it was x'mas came early for Mr Farage. An unexpected pension pot for him. And, Mr Farage being a slippery character he's too "Parliamentary" savvy not to disclose this money until.....

Clacton could be Mr Farage's political undoing. But, a consolation of £5m at his age no fool will turn it down.

Good old NIGE

The clip must be much funnier than how it reads.

I prefer the clip of someone shouting expletives out of her car, and driving straight into the back of a queue at the lights

People are saying that the convicted money launderer that funded all his security, lent him a £5,000pw house next to Buck Palace, and other emoluments, Wrote a book on how to launder money.
One of the chapters is titled "How to buy a politician".

I's a cracker!

lapsy pa26 Jul 26 15:22Joined: 29 Jan 09 | Topic/replies: 19,780 | Blogger: lapsy pa's blog
@ 1.34pm Laugh the canvasser could only lie but was made a holy show of himself by the canvassed.

All true and people are beginning to see the charade of Nigel Mirage,some saps would believe anything and the gullible is his(reform plc) 'business market'

The people of Medway still have faith lapsy , three council by elections won lately by Reform, including in my ward last week where they beat the Tories who had won here for the past 30 years.

I never said i trusted anyone lapsy, i can't recall a time when there was such a poor set of politicians to choose from.
This was emphasised in our local ward election last week, where the main parties (Tories particularly) spent more time demonising Reform in their campaign literature rather than telling us what they would seek do for the local area.  Their negative approach backfired and the Reform guy got in.

Both the Tories and Labour have had years to sort this country out and have largely failed to listen to the concerns of the electorate so it's only natural that people eventually start to look elsewhere. I've no idea if Reform would be the answer, but then in many peoples eyes what is there to lose ?

We have had large developments here over the past decade or so, but little improvement in facilities. The A228 gets ridiculously busy but all they want to do is build even more houses . There is an application in for 1300 more houses on greenfield land not far from me, this is just outside of the Medway council area and comes under Tonbridge and Malling. If that goes ahead it will be utter chaos all around the area traffic wise. One can only hope if gets kicked out.

We are on the same page Dixie with this, we both know that the infrastructure isn't there for the huge amount of housebuilding.I am not against it per se but roads,schools hospitals,surgeries,policing etc have to be also done in relation to that and it isn't even near.
It probably is a wake up call for Labour/Torys,don't deliver,good luck to you as council results show and cannot disagree with you.
Hope that development does get kicked out for you but not many are.

Get back to New Cross

https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.260007931

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There isn't any doubt whatsoever that both he and his party have been badly damaged by this event.

"I never ask you for anything but I am asking you now" seems a little desperate.